A former colleague of mine messaged me on instant messenger to ask me how things were going, we started talking about Linkedin profiles and he said that he wanted to spend some time on his Linkedin profile after he figured out what he wanted to do – based on some advice he had gotten. [...]
Posts under ‘career’
Knowing why
I don’t blog to make money, at least not directly. I blog for several other reasons, to improve my writing, to give people who may want to hire me or work with me an insight into my thought-process, to own the international Farhan Lalji google juice, but not to make money. I’m [...]
Equanimous
Today’s word of the day is “Equanimous”, and is brought to you by my good friend (and the Bee’s cousin) Tasleem Thawar. I can’t remember the exact context in which Tasleem introduced me and the Bee to being equanimous but it’s been a term that has stuck with me for while.
According to [...]
Contingency plan for your business not your career
I saw this tweet from a twitter account I follow called StartupUK:
Considering an Entrepreneurial Venture? Go For It, But Have a Career Contingency Plan « The …http://digg.com/u1HVA7
I went via digg to tweetmeme to a blog post on a site called the Job Search Guide about having a career contingency plan. I don’t buy it. [...]
Planning v living
When I was young I wanted to be a doctor, I ended up in technology. It was a pretty big shift. I realised I just wanted to do something I loved and enjoyed, and I ended up doing that.
In high school I thought I would end up in New York in my 20s, [...]
Sunk costs and powering through
I just finished reading Seth Godin’s the Dip. It was a quick, enjoyable read that’s helped me focus a bit.
The book talks about how anything worth having needs dedication and is usually pretty hard and how quitting a dead end masquerading as an opportunity (or as Seth calls them a “Cul-de-Sac”) is a [...]
Work as a source of happiness
I finished reading the Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt this week. A lot of it was pretty common sense and some things were surprising, like religious people being happier.
One of the things that caught me off guard was work and achievement of work as a source of happiness. In hind sight [...]
The portfolio approach to life
My definition of a portfolio is having a range of investments where risk is diversified. If you’re investing, you’re likely to be taking this type of approach. Venture Capital and other industries are likely to take this approach. When recently considering life decisions I decided that maybe taking a portfolio approach to [...]
Parents just don’t understand
I was listening to the Stanford podcast of Stephanie Keller Bottom (of Nokia’s Innovent team) today and found myself sharing an experience with her. It wasn’t that we both have degree’s that aren’t really technology related even though we work in technology – although that is true. And it wasn’t the fact that [...]
Getting used to a big company
One of the interesting things about working for a large multinational organization is that everyone has an opinion about the company. This definitely takes some getting used to.
I knew it was going to be interesting the day after I let people know I was joining Yahoo, this happened to be the same day the MSFT [...]